Death and the woodman [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Death and the woodman [graphic].
- Contributor
- Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1776?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
- Abstract
-
In a rural landscape with trees in the right rear of the print, Death in the form of a skeleton stand with his scythe and reaches down to touch an elderly white-bearded woodman who has fallen in the grass. The latter points to the burden of sticks which he has dropped, his axe lying on the ground as well
- Description
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Title etched between two columns of verse in six lines each below image.
Numbered in plate '339' in lower left corner.
Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.
Verse in plate based on Aesopian fable: A poor old woodman trudg'd along the road bending beneath the double load of faggots and of age. Alas! he cry'd. is there like me a wretch beside in all the country round? Quite spent and almost out of breath, he throws his burden on the ground, bemoand his fate and call'd on Death. Come Death, o come, and end my pain. Death came, and ask'd, what would you have of me? Only that you would be so kind said he, to help me with my bundle up again.
Publication date erased from print. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 2.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 35.3 x 25.0 cm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 776.00.00.03+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
- Mezzotints England London 1776
- Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Death
Skeletons
Scythes
Axes
Fuelwood
Woodcutting
Woodcutters
Aged persons
Clothing & dress - Subjects
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Death
Skeletons
Scythes
Axes
Fuelwood
Woodcutting
Woodcutters
Aged persons
Clothing & dress
England > London > 1776
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 6459926
- Object ID (OID)
- 10697285
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